Author
Topic: Enableing Remote Assistance (Read 1786 times)

Hopeing for some help. I am trying to enable remote assistance on my core server. I went to the Web Admin -> security -> outside access. I checked the boxes for port 80 and set up access for port 3080...I haven't checked the port 22 box. Once I click update, the screen refreshes and shows that the remote assistance boxes have changed. Once I click on "enable", the system just hangs there. I've tried it from the orbiter menu, same thing. I tried it from the KDE desktop, same thing. Has any one seen this. I have tight VNC and puTTY, neither of them work. I think its two separate issues.

I just go to KDE, Internet, Desktop Sharing on the core, and use any VNC program on my laptop. It always connects with no issues and is actually a very smooth responsive connection. The only downside I see is that from the core you have to accept the connection, then you have to put the password that the core gives you into your other pc. Not a huge deal, but it means that I have to sit in my closet and have a monitor hooked up to my core to get the connection established.I am sure there is some setting that lets you just dial in remotely (without having to accept or use a password), but I havent messed with it yet to find out.

I have noticed that VNC on the Kubuntu side will sometimes reject connections. What's the recommended way of allowing remote access to a core/hybrid?

To name a few: reboot as a diskless Media Director, ssh (for scp/sftp and tunneling too), web-admin, web-orbiter, NFS, samba (windows shares), so take your pick depending on what exactly you want to do.